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Topic: HOW to register/activate my new system blue?? (Read 1135 times)

OK, so I spent HOURS last night trying to find the answer to what must be a very simple question--but no joy. Extremely frustrating. Surely this must be prominently posted in multiple locations in a FAQ but I can't find it. WHY is this so hard to find? Yep, read through all the system red and blue docs--not there. Searched the blitz forums--nope.

So please someone, exactly how and where do you add a new system blue to the blitz network?

I would think here: http://en.blitzortung.org/login.php (just wild guessing) but when I enter my blitzortung.org forum username and pw it tells me that it is wrong. If I enter a different email address (more wild guessing) and enter the ID of my system blue from the detectors web interface the page just blinks at me and goes back to the login. Same result no matter what browser I use.

On the web page of the internal web server you find a link to request an account for Blitzortung.org. Follow the instructions in the email you will receive. The account is associated with your email address.If you got an account, you also got a user number. We differ between user and station numbers. A user may have none, only one, or several stations. You can assign a station to a user account as follows.Enter your username or email and your password on the login page of Blitzortung.org. After a successful login you are on the "Project Area -> User data" page. Here you can complete the information about you and your stations.http://www.blitzortung.org/login.phpIn the line "Assign a new station: (Processor ID)" enter the processor ID of your station. You find the processor ID of your station on the web page of the station under processor information.

This applies to folks who DON't have a previous station account... and I think it was updated to the newer instructions I posted below. I think that link for new account was on the upper right of the controller's web GUI... never did that since I was previous account.. so I don't remember.

The controller interface is not what Cutty is referring to. It is on the Bllitzortung web site. I have clicked the links that Cutty posted and I land in the exact right place. You should be seeing a screen containing (with entry boxes adjacent to each item):

You cannot add this information via the controller interface. Your comment "Unfortunately I can find no such link on any of the web interface pages. The only one is seen circled in the graphic." have me thinking that you are trying to do this from the controller interface page, not the Blitzortung site itself. If I remember correctly, I just copied and pasted the processor ID from the controller GUI page into the form on Blitzortung.org.

The controller interface is not what Cutty is referring to. It is on the Bllitzortung web site. I have clicked the links that Cutty posted and I land in the exact right place. You should be seeing a screen containing (with entry boxes adjacent to each item):

You cannot add this information via the controller interface. Your comment "Unfortunately I can find no such link on any of the web interface pages. The only one is seen circled in the graphic." have me thinking that you are trying to do this from the controller interface page, not the Blitzortung site itself. If I remember correctly, I just copied and pasted the processor ID from the controller GUI page into the form on Blitzortung.org.

Greg H.

Greg:

Yes, that is exactly what I was trying to do since all the posts I could find seemed to indicate that there should be a link somewhere on the controllers web interface.

One of the earlier versions and firmware, if I recall correctly, had a link which appeared on the controller GUI that directed the new operator to an add station setup on Blitzortung. that's actually what I was referring to in a latter posting... The newer procedure is what Kurt is attempting... Long ago, we had to 'email' to get an operator ID, etc... before even beginning, remember?the current set-up apparently is working for folks, but for some reason Kurt is unable to have the server complete his request.... I couldn't get it to work for me, using his data, either... so there's some quirk, and hopefully Kurt has inquired with Egon, and will receive a response soon... the BT page simply showed no response to the inputs when I attempted.

Fantastic! This would be a great time for clarification! Do it! That's how this thing works!Somebody finds something screwy, tracks it, reports it. Things get better.

Actually, very few folks have had any issue.... . Us old timers aren't aware of some of a new change, since we're not always starting up a New User, but simply adding a station... it may be that that link tells a new user to request id by email... we don't see such when we add a station to an existing account.

On the web page of the internal web server you find a link to request an account for Blitzortung.org. Follow the instructions in the email you will receive. The account is associated with your email address.

If you got an account, you also got a user number. We differ between user and station numbers. A user may have none, only one, or several stations. You can assign a station to a user account as follows.

WHAT is the "internal web server?" I took that to mean the web interface of the controller but that is not the case so what does that mean exactly? When describing web pages there MUST be a link to the URL or the reference is ambiguous

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Did Egon offer any clarification or comment in his response to you?

No, he just told me he had done it and sent me a link to register on lightningmaps.org which was very nice but I still don't know how to do it myself.

Long ago, we had to 'email' to get an operator ID, etc... before even beginning, remember?

I thought that was still the process. I have been doing Blitzortung "Since Dinosaurs Walked the Earth" (at least in the US), so it's not something that I have needed to get involved with. The adding of processor ID after you have the account and user number was simple enough, but Kurt had to get to "Step One" first however that happens now.